[georss] Worldkit georss support

[Mikel Maron]

Hi Jeroen,

> Our conversation dropped. I got it to work and realized that the URL  
> pointing to the GeoRSS should be on the same server!? Or is that a  
> security restriction on my side? When I copied the XML to a local  
> file it worked.

That's a security restriction in the Flash Player (as there is in the browser with Ajax). 
You either need to have the RSS on your own server, or the remote server needs to have permissions set up with crossdomain.xml.

> What you noticed is in fact also what I have seen. I would prefer  
> seeing boxes without fill instead of with (just a tick line, possibly  
> random colors).

You can set <fillalpha> to "0"
http://worldkit.org/doc/config.php#sizecolor

> Do I understand that the Flash app loops through the items in the feed?

It will rerequest the feed at intervals based on <update>.
http://worldkit.org/doc/rss.php#config

The default value is "60" seconds. Set <update> to "0" if you only want to load the feed once.

> I'll think more about how I would see such GeoRSS displayed nicely on  
> a map (e.g. to avoid the multiple global extent boxes that now color  
> the full map in red). If I think of something more elegant, I'll let  
> you know.

There will still be the problem with multiple overlapping extent boxes -- worldKit could use some work here, to display multiple items on the same geometry.

Mikel



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